No. 10,681 in Spanish
decolonial
Relating to the process of deconstructing colonial ideologies and practices to reclaim identity, culture, and autonomy.
In a sentence
El pensamiento decolonial busca cuestionar las estructuras heredadas de la colonización.
Decolonial thought seeks to question the structures inherited from colonization.
In this sentence, 'decolonial' is used as an adjective to describe a type of thought or perspective that discusses and critiques colonial legacies.
Organizamos un taller sobre prácticas artísticas decoloniales.
We organized a workshop on decolonial artistic practices.
Here, 'decolonial' qualifies artistic practices, associating these practices with ideas that challenge or depart from colonialist frameworks.
El debate en la conferencia tuvo una perspectiva claramente decolonial.
The debate at the conference had a clearly decolonial perspective.
In this instance, 'decolonial' describes the perspective of a debate, emphasizing critical engagement with decolonization or anti-colonial themes.
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